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On Ghosts
Mary Shelley
I look for ghosts--but none will force
Their way to me; ’tis falsely said
That there was ever intercourse
Between the living and the dead.
--Wordsworth
What a different earth do we inhabit from that on which our forefathers
dwelt! The antediluvian world, strode over by mammoths, preyed upon by
the megatherion, and peopled by the offspring of the Sons of God, is a
better type of the earth of Homer, Herodotus, and Plato, than the
hedged-in cornfields and measured hills of the present day. The globe
was then encircled by a wall which paled in the bodies of men, whilst
their feathered thoughts soared over the boundary; it had a brink, and
in the deep profound which it overhung, men’s imaginations,
eagle-winged, dived and flew, and brought home strange tales to their
believing auditors. Deep caverns harboured giants; cloud-like birds cast
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